The 2025 Best Firms to Work For: Acquis

CONSULTING SERVICE LINES: Strategy, Operating Model, Technology (including strategy and implementation), Artificial Intelligence, Procurement, Transformation Management, Talent & Leadership, Customer Experience, Employee Experience

Acquis is a different kind of management consulting firm. Leveraging our Think+Do framework, and practicing strategic empathy, we take the practicality of implementation into account as we develop clients’ strategies. We ensure clients’ strategies are operational, distill them across their organization, and execute transformation through experience management.

CMAG: What characteristics and elements would you attribute to your firm’s inclusion as a Best Firm to Work For?

As a people-first company, we encourage and foster an entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial spirit. We actively empower employees to gain new experience, build and execute like an owner, and directly shape the firm's trajectory. Our team is filled with corporate athletes who can thrive in many settings. No two Acquis consultants are alike. This diversity is fundamental to our success. Employees bring unique perspectives and expertise to each challenge, creating innovative solutions that exceed client expectations. We embrace this individuality and foster an environment where authentic voices contribute to collective excellence.

CMAG: Are there any specific programs or initiatives that contributed to you being included as a Best Firm?

Our commitment to fostering a supportive and inclusive workplace is embodied in our people first mantra. We have taken significant steps to go above and beyond in caring for our employees and creating a best-in-class place to work. Acquis offers generous medical, vision, and dental benefits for employees and their dependents, including access to 24/7 on-demand virtual health care. We are equally committed to mental and emotional well-being and provide our employees with confidential access to Modern Health, a platform for video-based therapy, executive coaching and text-based support. Recognizing that student debt is a burden carried by many of our employees, we offer a generous annual stipend to help pay down student debt faster or to use it toward continuing education. We encourage every employee to focus on their fitness by offering a monthly stipend that can be used to offset gym memberships or pay for fitness classes. In addition, employees receive an annual home-office stipend to purchase equipment such as treadmill desks and ergonomic accessories.

CMAG: In describing your firm, what would you say sets it apart from other consulting firms?

Acquis' Think+Do approach seamlessly integrates strategic thinking with practical execution. At its core, Think+Do reflects our belief that strategy without execution creates chaos, while execution without proper strategic thinking leads to organizational atrophy. Our methodology addresses both dimensions simultaneously, creating a cycle where implementation insights inform strategy refinement in real-time.

CMAG: Where your workforce is concerned, what would you say your priorities look like for the upcoming year and beyond?

We are immensely grateful that despite macroeconomic volatility, demand from existing clients and new clients remains strong. Over the next 18 months, to better support our team, we will roll out an enhanced feedback and performance-management system, informed by employee input from our 2024 launch. We will continue to invest heavily in AI, including providing broader training and upskilling, and further incorporating AI into our capabilities.

CMAG: What opportunities do you see as the most promising?

We're seeing an enormous opportunity to help organizations become AI-ready without losing their human edge. Companies that get this balance right will outperform competitors, reduce costs and improve employee satisfaction. Every client is asking us about this, and it is a common focus of our operating model work, we see it as a tremendous area where we can lead the market.

CMAG: What market forces do you see as the most challenging?

Companies are facing a challenging business environment where economic conditions and customer behavior are constantly shifting in unpredictable ways. The economy itself is volatile: interest rates, inflation, and job markets are all fluctuating more than usual. This makes it hard for businesses to plan ahead using their traditional strategies. Companies are forced to constantly monitor new data, update their predictions, and adjust their strategies in real time to avoid potential problems and capture new opportunities as they emerge.

CMAG: What impact do you think Best Firm to Work For honors will have on your employees? The firm overall? Clients?

Acquis is proud to have earned a "Best Firm to Work For" honor multiple times. Many employees chose to apply to Acquis because of this recognition, which validates our commitment to a people-first culture. Our team is proud to say that they work for a company that has been recognized for our focus on our people and clients. For clients, this recognition signals that top industry talent is working on their engagements and deliverables.